Paper bag



(N0 Modl.

A. F. EDSON.

Paper Bag.-

No. 241,795. Patented May 24,1881.

N. PETERS. MW WW9". EC.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT F. EDSON, OF BARNSTABLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

PAPER BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,795, dated May 24, 1881.

Application filed March 29, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom at may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT F. EDSON, of the town and county ot'Barnstable, of the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Paper Bags; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a perspective view, Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 a transverse section, of a bag containing my invention.

The bag is intended, especially, for use by grocers or confectioners for holding flour, sugar, confectionery, or various other edible matters usually sold by such a party, although it will answer for like purposes by other dealers. It has to it a fastening-flap, which, secured to one side of the bag at a suitable distance from its mouth, and having glue, paste, or cement on it, serves, on the bag being folded or closed atits mouth, to cover the part so folded,in order to keep it from unfolding or accidentally opening.

1n the drawings, A denotes the bag, and B the fastening-flap, which, at its lower edge or part, is pasted or secured to one side of the bag, at a distance from the mouth a of the bag about the length of the flap. The inner surface of the flap has glue or cement on it along its outer edge, as shown at b.

0n the bag, at its mouthfbeing folded so as to close the mouth the flap is to be turned over the portion so folded and down upon and cemented to the front side of the bag.

Furthermore, the bag is represented as bellows-shaped transversely, or as having angular folds, or folded in at its opposite edges, in manner as shown at c 0 in Fig. 3, the flap in such case having a width equal, or about equal, to the distance d 6 between the two folds 0 c at their bases. In constructing such a bag a sheet of paper of suflicient size is lapped and pasted at its two opposite edges, so as to form a tube of it. It is also to be folded in at opposite parts, as shown at o o in Fig. 3, after which, at one end, the tube is to be folded upon itself, and the part folded down is to be fastened down by cement or paste, so as to form the bag with a bottom or closure at the said end, the opposite or open end constituting the mouth of the bag.

My invention saves all necessity, generally speaking, of using twine or a string for closing the bag.

I do not claim, broadly, a bag provided with a flap joined to one side of it; but

I claim as a new or improved article of manufacture A paper bag folded in, as described, at its opposite edges, and having fixed to one side of it. and between the edge folds, and at a distance from its mouth, a fastening-flap provided onits inner surface with cement, all being substantially and for use as set forth.

ALBERT F. EDSON.

Witnesses:

E. S. PHINNEY, G. H. FOSTER. 

